Healthy Places Research Group Calendar
The HPRG meets once a month (typically the first Tuesday of every month from September to May) to discuss issues and exchagne information pertaining to health policy and impacts. Join our mailing list to receive email notices about HPRG!
2009-2010 Schedule of Meetings
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
Speaker: Rick Duke, Director, Center for Healthy Aging in the Built Environment
Topic: Justification for studying the relationship between health and the built environment and the development of a Research Agenda based on these goals
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD, Economic Development Building, Technology Square, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213, Atlanta, 30308
[DIRECTIONS, CQGRD is a short distance from the North Avenue MARTA station, visitor parking is available in the attached parking deck and bike parking is located directly in front of the building]
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009
Held in conjunction with Georgia State University's Urban Fellows Program.
Speaker: Holly Avey, Senior Research Associate, Georgia Regional Health Policy Center, Georgia State University AND Mike Dobbins, Associate Professor of Architecture and City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
Topic: Redevelopment of Fort McPherson: Integrating Health in All Policies
Time: 8:00-10:00 A.M.
Place: Georgia State University, University Center, 66 Courtland Street, Room 460/465, Atlanta, GA 30303
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009
Speaker: Ciannat Howett, Director of Sustainability Initiatives, Emory University
Topic: Sustainability Initiatives to Promote Health
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University, Rollins Building, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Room 721/29, Atlanta, GA 30329
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009
Join us for this Special Event: Holiday speak and eat. In response to her recently published book "Retrofitting Suburbia," Ellen Dunham-Jones will lead a tour of Perimeter Place, demonstrating the disappointing, and yet promising, aspects of the development. Join us afterwards, for drinks and snacks (pay-as-you-go) at a local restaurant.
Speaker: Ellen Dunham-Jones, Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
Topic: Retrofitting Suburbia: Redesigning the Suburbs & CNU's 2010 Rx for Healthy Places
Time: 4:00-6:00 P.M.
Place: CQGRD
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010
Speaker: Aaron Wernham, Project Director, Health Impact Project, Pew Charitable Trusts
Topic: Initiatives in Health Impact Assessments (HIAs)
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University, Rollins Building, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Room 721/29, Atlanta, GA 30329
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Held in conjunction with Georgia State University's Urban Fellows Program.
Speakers: Rebecca Serna, Executive Director, Atlanta Bicycle Coalition AND Laura Keyes and Kofi Wakhisi, Principal Planners, Atlanta Regional Commission
Topic: Healthy Atlanta: Creating a Healthy Population in a Sustainable City
Time: 8:00-10:00 A.M.
Place: Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010
Speaker: TBA
Topic: TBA
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD, Economic Development Building, Technology Square, 760 Spring Street, Suite 213, Atlanta, 30308
[DIRECTIONS, CQGRD is a short distance from the North Avenue MARTA station, visitor parking is available in the attached parking deck and bike parking is located directly in front of the building]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010
Speaker: Eleanor Smith, MA, MEd, Director, Concrete Change
Topic: Universally Accessible Housing
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University, Rollins Building, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30329
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010
Speakers: Panel of Local Foundations*
Topic: Recent and future funding efforts to promote healthy places*
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Georgia State University
*Indicates proposed speakers/topics.
2008-2009 Schedule of Meetings
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2008*
Speaker: Uriel Kitron, Professor and Chair, Environmental
Studies, Emory University [Bio]
Topic: Use of GIS to gather data, map, and further analyze
the spatial distribution of diseases.
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2008
Speaker: Emory Morsberger, CEO of the Morsberger Group
Topic: The Medici Center at Ponce Park
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008**
Speaker: Dr. Thomas "Danny" Boston, CEO and
Director of Research and Innovation, EuQuant and Professor at Georgia
Tech's Ivan Allen College- School of Economics
Topic: Public housing and mixed-income housing
Time: 5:00-5:30 P.M. networking; 5:30-7:00 P.M. speaker
Place: Georgia Tech
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008
Speaker: David Goldberg, Communications Director, Smart
Growth America
Topic: Effect of Urban Development on Climate Change
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Georgia State University
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2009*
Speaker: Paul Moore, Senior Engineer, Glatting Jackson
Kercher Anglin and representative for the Atlanta Transportation Group
in the Connect Atlanta Plan
Topic: The Connect Atlanta Plan (the Comprehensive Transportation
Plan for the City of Atlanta)
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Georgia State University
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009
Speaker: Karen Glanz, Professor, Behavioral Sciences
and Health Education, Emory University, and Director, Emory Prevention
Research Center
Topic: Use of the Nutrition Environment Measurement Survey
in Current Research Projects
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2009
Speaker: Jim Durrett, Executive Director of the Livable
Communities Coalition(LCC)
Topic: Smart Growth
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009
Speaker: Jeremy Sarnat, Assistant Professor, Environmental
and Occupational Health, Emory University, and Rebecca Watts-Hull, Program
Manager, Mothers & Others for Clean-Air, Georgia Conservancy
Topic: Traffic and urban sprawl as it relates to air
quality AND the reduction of exposure to poor air quality through regulated
guidelines
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009
Speakers: Christa Essig, National Center for Environmental
Health, CDC and Brad Davis, MACTEC speaking for the Atlanta Local Food
Initiative
Topic: Environmental approaches to a healthy diet and
the production and consumption of local food and the effects of such on
healthy eating, building local economies, strengthening social fabric,
preserving greenspace, and creating healthier communities
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Georgia State University
2007-2008 Schedule of Meetings
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2007*
Speaker: Multiple HPRG Participants and Researchers
Topic: HPRG, looking back and moving forward
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2007
Speaker: Laura Case, Emory University
Topic: LEED - Neighborhood Design [View
Presentation]
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2007*
Speaker: Reagan Hammond, Atlanta Regional Commission
Topic: Atlanta Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan [View
Presentation]
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2007*
Speakers:
Tim Cash, Assistant Branch Chief, Chattahoochee and Flint River Basins, Watershed Protection Branch, Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD)
Topic: Georgia Drought [View
Presentation]
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2008*
Speaker: Gaylon Rogers, Labor of Love Ministries, Inc.
Topic: Healthy Housing
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008
Speaker: Tom Weyandt, Director, Comprehensive Planning
Division, Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC)
Topic: Regional Growth and Innovative Development
Mr. Weyandt presented the ARC's recently-released growth projections for
the Atlanta region and the types of development projects recently-recognized
by the ARC in their Developments of Excellence award program that are
good models for future growth.
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008
Speaker: Brian Stone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Georgia
Tech's City and Regional Planning Program
Topic: Heat Stress in Hotlanta: How Large Cities are
Amplifying Global Warming
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008
Speakers:
Topic: A Multi-Method Assessment of Park Users and Physical
Activity Behaviors in a Sample of DeKalb County, Georgia Parks
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2008 - SPECIAL EVENT
Speakers:
Topic: Making Healthy Places Happen
This special event of HPRG will offer real-life, local examples of how
to make healthy places. While the Atlanta metro faces many challenges
to maintain and enhance quality of life and community health, there are
many beacons of hope and success that offer practical and realizable strategies
to support healthy lifestyles for all. In a panel discussion we will hear
about local government policies and plans to promote wellbeing; development
practices to create livable places; and approaches to retrofit an auto-oriented
urban area to support walking, biking and transit.
Time: 7:15-9:00 A.M.
Place: Georgia Tech
2006-2007 Schedule of Meetings
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2006*
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Mindell, University College London
[VIEW PRESENTATION]
Topic: Health Impact Assessment of the London Congestion
Pricing Program
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2006
Speakers:
Topic: Emergence, Goals, and Objectives of the Livable
Communities Coalition
and Emory University's Clifton Road Mixed Use Development
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006*
Speaker: Sally Flocks, President, PEDS
Topic: Atlanta's Mean Streets: How Are We Doing?
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2006
Speakers:
Topic: Georgia's Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative
Topic: Georgia's Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative.
This is a great opportunity to learn about state-level efforts to address
concerns related to nutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and the built environment.
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2007
Speakers:
Topic: Estimating the percentage of children in Georgia
living within a safe and reasonable walking distance from school using
census and school data and GIS and analytic software [VIEW
PRESENTATION]
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2007
Speaker: Mary Jean Brown, ScD, Chief, Lead Poisoning
Prevention Branch and Healthy Homes Goal Team, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Topic: CDC's Healthy Homes Activities: Policy and Research
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007
Speaker: CQGRD Researchers
Topic: Atlanta BeltLine Health Impact Assessment Survey
Results - How Important is Health to Atlantans?
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2007
Speakers:
Topic: Does moving to a mixed use residential setting
influence travel, physical activity, and nutrition behaviors? [VIEW
PRESENTATION]
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2007
Speakers:
Topic: Overview/Update of Applied Research Projects
Concerning Outdoor and Indoor Built Environments, and Urban Outdoor Air
Quality
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
2005-2006 Schedule of Meetings
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2005
Speakers:
Topic: "Healthy Places" at every scale...building, neighborhood,
region, nation, globe
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2005
Speakers:
Topic: Aging and Livable Communities
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2005
Speaker: Bill Kohl, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Topic: Physical Activity and Health
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2005
Speaker: Stefanie Sarnet
Topic: Air Quality
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2006
Speakers: Jason Barringer and Karen Leone de Nie, CQGRD
Topic: Health Impact Assessment of the Atlanta BeltLine
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2006
Speaker: Karen Glanz, Ph.D., M.P.H., Emory University
[Bio]
Topic: Developing Measures to Evaluate the Nutrition
Environments of Communities
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2006
Speaker: Prof. Craig Zimring, Georgia Tech College of
Architecture [Bio]
Topic: The Role of Site Design and Building Design in
Promoting Physical Activity
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006
Speakers:
Topic: Building Healthier Communities and Promoting Healthier
Kids (National Public Health Week)
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2006
Speaker: Dr. Howard Frumkin, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Topic: Public Health
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Emory University
2004-2005 Schedule of Meetings
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2004
Topic: HPRG Reception
Time: 5:00-6:30 P.M.
Place: Emory University
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2004
Speaker: n/a
Topic: n/a
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2004
Speaker: Michael Dobbins, City and Regional Planning,
Georgia Tech
Topic: Regional Transportation Planning and Public Health
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2004
Speaker: William G. Baker, Jr., MD, FACP
Topic: Atlanta Regional Health Forum
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Southface
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2004
Speakers:
Topic: n/a
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Southface
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2005
Speaker:
Jon Sanford, Center for Assistive Technology & Environmental Access
Topic: n/a
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: Southface
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2005
Speaker: n/a
Topic: n/a
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2005
Speakers:
Topic: Neighborhood Parks and Active Living AND The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2005
Speaker: n/a
Topic: n/a
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2005
Speaker: Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of Architecture
Program, Georgia Tech
Topic: n/a
Time: 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Place: CQGRD
